“DO YOU know you have to give everything to become a TV announcer?” These words cost Kang Yong-seok, a member of South Korea’s parliament, his membership of the ruling Grand National Party in July. His insinuation that a woman must sleep her way to the top to work in television embarrassed his colleagues and set off a national debate about sexism."
There are bundles of researches carried out and asked why not many female Nobel laureates, asked why not many females genius and asked why not enough woman leaders in history. All the answers were consist with woman child rearing is the heavy toils in woman in waiting genius. Brain-drain! Strangely lots of childless feminists hang around with whatever moreover! All the famous females -- Cleopatra, Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I -- leaders in history become famous not their own merit rather because they were “somebody” daughters or somebody’s wife a research says. Closely some of females leaders in politics are childless. Their entire life is arranged gyroscope of political battle field. Their childless cosily nested in their brains, or heart and soul comfortable sit on head to toe job. You can imagine a general in a battle field, if he worries about his child left behind. Anyway I am not getting into deep discussion in here. Rather I take a position everyone have right to be individual and that is your sovereign right your own. If you want to have a dozen children and baking cookies all day that is ok, if you want to childless and pursue your everything in your happiness in a hot shot seat and drive everyone mad that is ok. It comes long way and it will long way to go yet. Hey I am not in Korea anymore!
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YSKW
Friday, October 29, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Intentional Trade is Amoral Dr Faust
Last month a Chinese trawler operating in Japanese-controlled waters collided with two vessels of Japan’s Coast Guard. Japan detained the trawler’s captain; China responded by cutting off Japan’s access to crucial raw materials.
And there was nowhere else to turn: China accounts for 97 percent of the world’s supply of rare earths, minerals that play an essential role in many high-technology products, including military equipment. Sure enough, Japan soon let the captain go.
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This from Paul Krugman New York Times
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Broadly, Beijing's naval modernisation is the understandable response of a vast trading power to anxiety about its vulnerable energy supplies. It was inconceivable that China would forever outsource sea-lane security to the US.
At this time of unprecedented Chinese naval power, modernisation and audacity, it is
troubling that diplomatic mechanisms for communication and preventing strife at sea remain weak to nonexistent.
This is as bad for China as it is for everyone else. The increasingly crowded maritime highways of the Indo-Pacific lack even the basic code that helped keep the Cold War cool. In the early 1970s, the Americans and Soviets crafted a detailed agreement and operating rules to stop incidents at sea from escalating to war. Today, no such understanding exists between China and the other powers its navy is increasingly brushing up against.
And while Beijing, New Delhi and Japan are finally talking about setting up leadership hotlines to help cope with their security tensions, there remains much confusion about how these might work in practice. Beijing and Tokyo cannot so far even agree if their proposed military hotline would simply give warning of defence exercises or serve to manage crises in real time.
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This is from Lowy Institute
This Chinees bully is not same as a little feeble bully boy in a school yard who can be easily scolded effectively deal with. It is real, eat or to be eaten. So utilitarian logic is amoral metamorphosed Goethe’s Faust, I say, O power, my super power my economic power I give you my heart and soul! There is always catch of course…
YSKW
And there was nowhere else to turn: China accounts for 97 percent of the world’s supply of rare earths, minerals that play an essential role in many high-technology products, including military equipment. Sure enough, Japan soon let the captain go.
….
This from Paul Krugman New York Times
And
…
Broadly, Beijing's naval modernisation is the understandable response of a vast trading power to anxiety about its vulnerable energy supplies. It was inconceivable that China would forever outsource sea-lane security to the US.
At this time of unprecedented Chinese naval power, modernisation and audacity, it is
troubling that diplomatic mechanisms for communication and preventing strife at sea remain weak to nonexistent.
This is as bad for China as it is for everyone else. The increasingly crowded maritime highways of the Indo-Pacific lack even the basic code that helped keep the Cold War cool. In the early 1970s, the Americans and Soviets crafted a detailed agreement and operating rules to stop incidents at sea from escalating to war. Today, no such understanding exists between China and the other powers its navy is increasingly brushing up against.
And while Beijing, New Delhi and Japan are finally talking about setting up leadership hotlines to help cope with their security tensions, there remains much confusion about how these might work in practice. Beijing and Tokyo cannot so far even agree if their proposed military hotline would simply give warning of defence exercises or serve to manage crises in real time.
…
This is from Lowy Institute
This Chinees bully is not same as a little feeble bully boy in a school yard who can be easily scolded effectively deal with. It is real, eat or to be eaten. So utilitarian logic is amoral metamorphosed Goethe’s Faust, I say, O power, my super power my economic power I give you my heart and soul! There is always catch of course…
YSKW
Sunday, October 17, 2010
The Next Oil Shock?
I Found This Cool Summary From NZ Parliamentary Services in my mailbox
SUMMARY
• Oil is “the lifeblood of modern civilisation”. This paper provides an overview of the global oil market. In particular, it examines the outlook for oil supply and demand over the nextfive years, and the economic consequences.
• Low-cost reserves of oil are being rapidly exhausted, forcing oil companies to turn to more expensive sources of oil. This replacement of low-cost sources of oil with highercostssources is driving the price of oil higher.
• While the world will not run out of oil reserves for decades to come, it cannot indefinitely continue to produce oil at an increasing rate from the remaining reserves.
• Forecasts indicate that world oil production capacity will not grow or fall in the next five years while demand will continue to rise.
• If oil production capacity does not rise as fast as demand, the buffer of spare production capacity disappears. In such a ‘supply crunch’ the price of oil ‘spikes’ to high levels. High oil prices can induce global recessions.
• Organisations including the International Energy Agency and the US military have warned that another supply crunch is likely to occur soon after 2012 due to rising demand and insufficient production capacity.
• There is a risk that the world economy may be at the start of a cycle of supply crunches leading to price spikes and recessions, followed by recoveries leading to supply crunches.
• New Zealand is heavily dependent on oil imports and will remain so for the foreseeable future. While there is potential to substantially increase domestic production, domestic oil production cannot insulate New Zealand from global oil price shocks because New Zealand pays the world price for goods like oil.
• Key export-generating industries in the New Zealand economy including tourism and timber, dairy, and meat exports are very vulnerable to oil shocks because of their reliance on affordable international transport.
Read More Here! This also nice to look!
YSKW
SUMMARY
• Oil is “the lifeblood of modern civilisation”. This paper provides an overview of the global oil market. In particular, it examines the outlook for oil supply and demand over the nextfive years, and the economic consequences.
• Low-cost reserves of oil are being rapidly exhausted, forcing oil companies to turn to more expensive sources of oil. This replacement of low-cost sources of oil with highercostssources is driving the price of oil higher.
• While the world will not run out of oil reserves for decades to come, it cannot indefinitely continue to produce oil at an increasing rate from the remaining reserves.
• Forecasts indicate that world oil production capacity will not grow or fall in the next five years while demand will continue to rise.
• If oil production capacity does not rise as fast as demand, the buffer of spare production capacity disappears. In such a ‘supply crunch’ the price of oil ‘spikes’ to high levels. High oil prices can induce global recessions.
• Organisations including the International Energy Agency and the US military have warned that another supply crunch is likely to occur soon after 2012 due to rising demand and insufficient production capacity.
• There is a risk that the world economy may be at the start of a cycle of supply crunches leading to price spikes and recessions, followed by recoveries leading to supply crunches.
• New Zealand is heavily dependent on oil imports and will remain so for the foreseeable future. While there is potential to substantially increase domestic production, domestic oil production cannot insulate New Zealand from global oil price shocks because New Zealand pays the world price for goods like oil.
• Key export-generating industries in the New Zealand economy including tourism and timber, dairy, and meat exports are very vulnerable to oil shocks because of their reliance on affordable international transport.
Read More Here! This also nice to look!
YSKW
Investors Of Several Major Listed Companies Prepare AGM Hit Lists!
SEVERAL major listed company boards are bracing for a backlash against their remuneration reports at coming annual general meetings.
This comes as investors demand a stronger link between pay and performance.
The Australian Shareholders Association and the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors are preparing to vote against a number of remuneration reports, putting pressure on some companies to review their executive pay plans.
Read More in Here!
This comes as investors demand a stronger link between pay and performance.
The Australian Shareholders Association and the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors are preparing to vote against a number of remuneration reports, putting pressure on some companies to review their executive pay plans.
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Friday, October 15, 2010
TWO Korean Crisis!
Cheonan choices
The Lowy Institute’s MacArthur Foundation Asia Security Project is releasing a new publication series, ‘Strategic Snapshots’. The first Snapshot, Cheonan Choices, by Andrew Shearer and Malcolm Cook, highlights the strategic implications of North Korea’s sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan, including strengthened security ties between South Korea, Japan and the United States, and concerns about China’s limited response to its ally’s reckless and provocative actions.
It advocates a range of policy responses, including: enhanced Australia-South Korea intelligence sharing and annual strategic discussions between Australian and South Korean foreign and defence ministers; bringing Japan and Australia into future anti-submarine exercises involving South Korea and the United States and establishing four-party security discussions; and an Australia-South Korea led exercise in support of the international Proliferation Security Initiative.
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South Korea, the United States, Japan and China and the wider region face the unsettling reality that despite its political fragility and economic weakness it is North Korea’s choices that are setting the security agenda in Northeast Asia.”...
“The Cheonan sinking could prove something of a watershed in South Korea’s relationship with China. South Korean officials are scathing of Beijing’s refusal to condemn its North Korean ally for the attack .”
Kimchi diplomacy is too hot to handle, need lots of ingredient and skill to mellow!
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The Lowy Institute’s MacArthur Foundation Asia Security Project is releasing a new publication series, ‘Strategic Snapshots’. The first Snapshot, Cheonan Choices, by Andrew Shearer and Malcolm Cook, highlights the strategic implications of North Korea’s sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan, including strengthened security ties between South Korea, Japan and the United States, and concerns about China’s limited response to its ally’s reckless and provocative actions.
It advocates a range of policy responses, including: enhanced Australia-South Korea intelligence sharing and annual strategic discussions between Australian and South Korean foreign and defence ministers; bringing Japan and Australia into future anti-submarine exercises involving South Korea and the United States and establishing four-party security discussions; and an Australia-South Korea led exercise in support of the international Proliferation Security Initiative.
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South Korea, the United States, Japan and China and the wider region face the unsettling reality that despite its political fragility and economic weakness it is North Korea’s choices that are setting the security agenda in Northeast Asia.”...
“The Cheonan sinking could prove something of a watershed in South Korea’s relationship with China. South Korean officials are scathing of Beijing’s refusal to condemn its North Korean ally for the attack .”
Kimchi diplomacy is too hot to handle, need lots of ingredient and skill to mellow!
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THE PARTY: THE SECRET WORLD OF CHINA'S COMMUNIST RULERS
Over the last thirty years, China has emerged as a major political and economic power on the international stage, and the pace of this growth has been astonishing. Though China's presence in the global arena continues to grow rapidly, the most remarkable part of this country's transformation has been largely left untold – the central role of the Chinese Communist Party. In THE PARTY: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers former Financial Times China bureau chief Richard McGregor delves into the hidden world of the Communist Party, revealing how this ruling organisation works and how it has contributed to China's rise as a global superpower and rival to the United States.
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Little Power, Big Choices: Australia’s Strategic Future
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Building on Power and Choice, the Lowy Institute's major report on Asian Security Futures, Mr Heinrichs argues that while US primacy or a 'concert of Asia' are the most preferable futures for Australia, a competitive balance of power is the most likely. Between new risks for Canberra of being dragged into competition and old fears of being left to fend for itself, Mr Heinrichs recommends a major build-up of Australia's independent strategic weight, and reduced reliance on the United States, as a hedge against the most serious dangers arising from Asia's transition.
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For Australian strategists, recent decades have been relatively easy. Since at least the end of the Vietnam War, Australia’s fundamental security has been assured by a fortuitous set of circumstances. A prolonged era of US primacy in Asia has kept the region open and orderly. It has fostered trade and economic growth and prevented relations between Asia’s major powers from devolving into the kind of destabilising
competition that would be damaging to Australian security.
The coming decades promise to be far less tractable. In the cold calculus of power, it is China, not the United States, which has benefited most from the stability of US primacy. Yet China’s growing power, together with the complex responses this is
eliciting across the region, is slowly but steadily transforming Asia’s strategic order.1 Exactly how that transformation occurs lies beyond Australia’s control, as does the shape of the order that eventuates and the dynamics by which it operates. For better or worse, Australian security will continue to depend to a large extent on the way the region’s major powers choose to manage their relations as the balance among them changes.
This is not a reassuring prospect. Power and Choice: Asian Security Futures assessed the gradual emergence of a more competitive balance of power as the most probable trajectory for Asia’s security environment, and suggested that the transition away from US primacy ‘may already be under way’...
Read More Raoul Heinrichs Report.
Building on Power and Choice, the Lowy Institute's major report on Asian Security Futures, Mr Heinrichs argues that while US primacy or a 'concert of Asia' are the most preferable futures for Australia, a competitive balance of power is the most likely. Between new risks for Canberra of being dragged into competition and old fears of being left to fend for itself, Mr Heinrichs recommends a major build-up of Australia's independent strategic weight, and reduced reliance on the United States, as a hedge against the most serious dangers arising from Asia's transition.
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For Australian strategists, recent decades have been relatively easy. Since at least the end of the Vietnam War, Australia’s fundamental security has been assured by a fortuitous set of circumstances. A prolonged era of US primacy in Asia has kept the region open and orderly. It has fostered trade and economic growth and prevented relations between Asia’s major powers from devolving into the kind of destabilising
competition that would be damaging to Australian security.
The coming decades promise to be far less tractable. In the cold calculus of power, it is China, not the United States, which has benefited most from the stability of US primacy. Yet China’s growing power, together with the complex responses this is
eliciting across the region, is slowly but steadily transforming Asia’s strategic order.1 Exactly how that transformation occurs lies beyond Australia’s control, as does the shape of the order that eventuates and the dynamics by which it operates. For better or worse, Australian security will continue to depend to a large extent on the way the region’s major powers choose to manage their relations as the balance among them changes.
This is not a reassuring prospect. Power and Choice: Asian Security Futures assessed the gradual emergence of a more competitive balance of power as the most probable trajectory for Asia’s security environment, and suggested that the transition away from US primacy ‘may already be under way’...
Read More Raoul Heinrichs Report.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Clean Energy Trends 2009
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Clean Edge, which has been tracking the growth of clean-tech markets for nearly a decade, reports that global revenues for solar photovoltaics, wind power, and biofuels expanded from $75.8 billion in 2007 to $115.9 billion in 2008. For the first time, onesector alone, wind, had revenues exceeding $50 billion. New global investments in energy technologies — including venture capital, project finance, public markets, and research and development — expanded by 4.7 percent from $148.4 billion in 2007 to $155.4 billion in 2008, according to research firm New Energy Finance.
But despite this striking increase in global revenue and continued growth in global investments, the clean-energy sector faces considerable challenges moving forward.
A sinking stock market continues to plague the initial public offering(IPO) markets, with only a small handful of energy-related IPO listings on U.S. exchanges in 2008.
This means that venture capitalists (VCs) are faced with a dearth of exit opportunities for their current portfolio companies, making it harder for new companies to garner VC investments.
According to research firm Renaissance Capital, there were just 43 U.S. IPOs of all types in 2008 that raised at least $50 million, down from 272 in 2007, marking the slowest year for IPOs in nearly three decades (1979).
Clean Edge’s two clean-energy-related stock indexes, which were both up more than
60 percent in 2007, were down a similar amount in 2008, reflecting the volatility of the clean-energy sector and broader markets overall.
http://www.cleanedge.com/reports/pdf/Trends2009.pdf
Clean Edge, which has been tracking the growth of clean-tech markets for nearly a decade, reports that global revenues for solar photovoltaics, wind power, and biofuels expanded from $75.8 billion in 2007 to $115.9 billion in 2008. For the first time, onesector alone, wind, had revenues exceeding $50 billion. New global investments in energy technologies — including venture capital, project finance, public markets, and research and development — expanded by 4.7 percent from $148.4 billion in 2007 to $155.4 billion in 2008, according to research firm New Energy Finance.
But despite this striking increase in global revenue and continued growth in global investments, the clean-energy sector faces considerable challenges moving forward.
A sinking stock market continues to plague the initial public offering(IPO) markets, with only a small handful of energy-related IPO listings on U.S. exchanges in 2008.
This means that venture capitalists (VCs) are faced with a dearth of exit opportunities for their current portfolio companies, making it harder for new companies to garner VC investments.
According to research firm Renaissance Capital, there were just 43 U.S. IPOs of all types in 2008 that raised at least $50 million, down from 272 in 2007, marking the slowest year for IPOs in nearly three decades (1979).
Clean Edge’s two clean-energy-related stock indexes, which were both up more than
60 percent in 2007, were down a similar amount in 2008, reflecting the volatility of the clean-energy sector and broader markets overall.
http://www.cleanedge.com/reports/pdf/Trends2009.pdf
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